Michy Batshuayi might be just what Chelsea need, VAR creates fresh farce and Coventry’s on-field outlook brightens at last Cardiff are not the first team to irk Pep Guardiola this season with their aggressive style but the constant fouling and Lee Mason’s conservative use of cards meant Mancheste...

• City forward ‘out for a while’ after heavy challenge by Joe Bennett • ‘The players are the artists and you have to take care of them’ Pep Guardiola reported that Leroy Sané would be out for a few weeks at least, as he complained about Cardiff City’s overly physical approach in this FA Cup tie o...

A draw, and so a replay, was probably not the desired result, though it is fair that this FA Cup fourth-round tie is still to have a winner. Swansea City may feel they were superior but, after freezing to allow Jon Stead’s equaliser for Notts County after the break, the Premier League’s bottom si...

All the news and match previews for this weekend’s FA Cup fourth-round matches If Manchester City are to complete the quadruple they will have to get past a team whose form has been somewhat mixed in recent weeks. Cardiff are undefeated in four games having lost their previous four games, but wit...

Kevin Nolan’s band of ageing former Premier League stars hope to pull off one more big job against top-flight opponents There is a hint of The Wild Bunch about the Notts County squad managed by Kevin Nolan. Sam Peckinpah’s gritty 1969 western, a classic of the “one last big job” genre, tells the...

Swansea’s win over Liverpool brought back some welcome unpredictability but the dourness on offer beneath the Champions League chasers is troubling Swansea City may be out of intensive care and receiving visitors – Carlos Carvalhal’s propensity for entertaining metaphor could be among the highlig...